” I will celebrate the day their government and the entire “royal” family is rounded up and executed.”
The reason our government has supported the Saudi royal family is that whatever comes after them will likely make what happened in Iran look like a southern church social. Saudi Arabia is, appearances aside, very fragile. When it falls that whole area will be in bloody anarchy. The effects will be felt worldwide.
Very sobering and very true.
And you are suggesting it is not now? At some point we need to take long view and align ourselves with good and against evil. Saudi Arabia might not be worst, but they are evil, not good.
The Saudi Royals themselves are by all accounts not particularly religious. However, they stay in power by paying off fanatical Wahabbi clerics (and enforcing Sharia law that the clerics demand), who in return for money give the Saudis their blessing, or at least don't agitate for their overthrow. What the clerics then do with this money is send it abroad to sponsor mosques that radicalize Muslims elsewhere around the world. In other words, Saudi Arabia outsources extremism so that they don't have to deal with it at home.
So in a sense you're right - if the Saudi Royal family went, the Wahhabi cleric would be running things directly rather than vicariously.